greyghost
02-07-2004, 07:22 AM
I got home late last night from "Reinhart Performance Automotive" with the GreyGhost after a 400 mi run with the new Level II transmission and the updated cooling mod. Life is Good, the car ran great
First the Level II Trans. Shift points nice and crisp during normal driving. When you put it in reverse you have reverse, no major time delay, it drops right in. Trans. temperature never went above 150 F. The cooler is impressive and it completely relieves the radiator to take care of the engine. When you accelerate hard the trans is the way I want it, no wasted energy. before the upgrade when it shifted you could feel the clutches not releasing properly, especially on the 1-2 shift, the car use to feel like it was slowing down when it shifted now it justs barks the tires and keeps on going. The 2800 stall converter really help the acceleration also.
The cooling mod is interesting in that I actually saw overall temp decrease also. My temp needle with the 180 F thermostat points directly at the 20 mph graduation on the speedometer. Now it points at about 18.4 mph. I don't know exactly how much that is but the heads are now more uniformly cooled and overall temp came down a bit. This may also be from the elimination of the radiator trans cooling.
I also decide to get the SCT (Super Chips Tuner). Dennis had put a flash into my computer but with the SCT I will be able to make addition mods to the car and dyno it in Atlanta, send him the results, he can make the changes to my program and email the file to me, I will down load it into the tuner and then I can upload it into the car. Wow, modern technology is fantastic.
Anyway Dennis was his normal great entertaining self. The transmission people got their wires crossed in the shop and didn't get the mods done for me to leave on Thursday so I stayed at Dennis's house Thursday night. We went out to supper and on the way home we were traveling down the Blvd in his Blue Marauder minding our own business when this car pulled up next to us and started gunning their engine and baiting Dennis to run. Now we were all mellow from supper and tried to ignore this car but he was really being obnoxious. Well, Dennis dropped the hammer on him and it was amazing what a Stage I Marauder will do with 4 adults, 5000 lb car, will do. The only problem was that Orange Park's finest was sitting in a shoppoing center parking lot and the radar detectctor went off just as we hit 3rd gear. We slowed down and the patrolman went past us and pulled over the other car then signaled us to pull over. Dennis being the emmisary of good will that he is immediately stopped and got out of the car and went back to see the officers. The one officer new Dennis as he does some work for the police Department. Now this is really the hilarious part, Dennis explained how the other car had baited us and that we were just trying to get away from them and all that uh, nonsense?? Well, then the officer went over to the other driver and asked what his story was. He told the officer that he had been baiting Dennis and that he started the whole thing. The oFficer turned to Dennis and said "You can go Mr. Reinhart". You didn't need to tell Dennis twice and we were out of there. Sheila, Lonnie and I couldn't belive it when Dennis got back in the car. It was a great evening with great company.
First the Level II Trans. Shift points nice and crisp during normal driving. When you put it in reverse you have reverse, no major time delay, it drops right in. Trans. temperature never went above 150 F. The cooler is impressive and it completely relieves the radiator to take care of the engine. When you accelerate hard the trans is the way I want it, no wasted energy. before the upgrade when it shifted you could feel the clutches not releasing properly, especially on the 1-2 shift, the car use to feel like it was slowing down when it shifted now it justs barks the tires and keeps on going. The 2800 stall converter really help the acceleration also.
The cooling mod is interesting in that I actually saw overall temp decrease also. My temp needle with the 180 F thermostat points directly at the 20 mph graduation on the speedometer. Now it points at about 18.4 mph. I don't know exactly how much that is but the heads are now more uniformly cooled and overall temp came down a bit. This may also be from the elimination of the radiator trans cooling.
I also decide to get the SCT (Super Chips Tuner). Dennis had put a flash into my computer but with the SCT I will be able to make addition mods to the car and dyno it in Atlanta, send him the results, he can make the changes to my program and email the file to me, I will down load it into the tuner and then I can upload it into the car. Wow, modern technology is fantastic.
Anyway Dennis was his normal great entertaining self. The transmission people got their wires crossed in the shop and didn't get the mods done for me to leave on Thursday so I stayed at Dennis's house Thursday night. We went out to supper and on the way home we were traveling down the Blvd in his Blue Marauder minding our own business when this car pulled up next to us and started gunning their engine and baiting Dennis to run. Now we were all mellow from supper and tried to ignore this car but he was really being obnoxious. Well, Dennis dropped the hammer on him and it was amazing what a Stage I Marauder will do with 4 adults, 5000 lb car, will do. The only problem was that Orange Park's finest was sitting in a shoppoing center parking lot and the radar detectctor went off just as we hit 3rd gear. We slowed down and the patrolman went past us and pulled over the other car then signaled us to pull over. Dennis being the emmisary of good will that he is immediately stopped and got out of the car and went back to see the officers. The one officer new Dennis as he does some work for the police Department. Now this is really the hilarious part, Dennis explained how the other car had baited us and that we were just trying to get away from them and all that uh, nonsense?? Well, then the officer went over to the other driver and asked what his story was. He told the officer that he had been baiting Dennis and that he started the whole thing. The oFficer turned to Dennis and said "You can go Mr. Reinhart". You didn't need to tell Dennis twice and we were out of there. Sheila, Lonnie and I couldn't belive it when Dennis got back in the car. It was a great evening with great company.